"You don't have a knack for swordsmanship. You're better suited to using a staff. Try a different direction." After speaking with Zi Xu for a long time, Gekko Hayate said this to him.
He didn't know how to explain Zi Xu's talent for swordsmanship. If talent points were a thing, everyone would have ten in total. A swordsmanship prodigy might have seven points in swordsmanship and the remaining three in related skills.
Zi Xu was different. He also had ten talent points in total, but to Gekko Hayate, it felt as if he had thirty points in staff fighting and zero in everything else—except his swordsmanship talent, which was minus twenty.
He could use other weapons just fine, but whenever he picked up a sword, he would use it in an incredibly awkward way, like a staff, to perform sword techniques. It was hard to imagine how Zi Xu had managed to leave blunt-force marks on the target with Yuki Bashiri. Gekko Hayate decided he couldn't teach him, so he sent Zi Xu away.
Zi Xu headed toward his residence, a bare-bones house. He looked back at Gekko Hayate, who was standing guard there, and couldn't help sighing with emotion.
"Impure World Reincarnation really is useful. An undying body and an incredibly fast Chakra recovery rate—with almost no drawbacks besides being unable to grow stronger. The perfect laborer and test subject. No wonder Orochimaru is so confident..."
Zi Xu was deeply curious about this technique, which was practically a bug. Wasn't this just bringing the dead back to life? And on top of that, you got an undying body and an efficient Chakra recovery ability. That was truly "worse than death."
"Come to think of it, that old Orochimaru is dangerous. Impure World Reincarnation... No wonder it's a forbidden technique.